Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...someone forgets the old Army axiom. "Keep Your Mouth Shut, etc., and Never Volunteer," the midshipman-officers school will not be represented in the SERVICE NEWS after this issue. This writer has apparently devoted a little more time to his scoopin' than he should have. In witness whereof, see Exhibit One, Disbursing Grades of 8, slant 2, slant 43. There must be someone else who can spare a few hours a week unscuttling things for our growing ensemble...
...general as "an aspect of frustration" and evidence of "the decay of France." He admires the earlier work of Giorgio di Chirico. But of Salvador Dali he says: ". . . Each new showing evidences an hysterical attempt to provide the spectator with a different shock than that of the preceding exhibit." Of a Max Ernst show in 1941 he remarks: "Here, just the right amount of peep-show pornography ... to provide final fashionable acceptance to an audience thrilled by its chichi eroticism...
...formal review over, the 240 Mil Sci men will fall out into four demonstration teams, which will exhibit their training in the firing battery, gunnery, fire direction, and foot drill. With Cadet Col. James H. Reynolds, Jr. in charge, the demonstration will last until 4:45 o'clock. All men will then reassemble for retreat ceremonies...
From two different villages on the Isle of Wight came reports to the "Nature Correspondent" of the Times of the first spring cuckoo. In the National Gallery an exhibit entitled "Rebuilding Britain" showed flea-sized houses with modern flying buttresses. Britons looked, muttered: "No scullery, no privacy...
From the office of Lieut. Colonel Frank T. McCabe at Burbank, Calif, came World War II's prize exhibit of supersecrecy. To news publications, Colonel McCabe whispered behind his hand...